Reinforced glass.



CLARENCE A. FULLERTON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

REINFORCED GLASS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 5,1916.

Application filed October 16, 1913. Serial No. 795,575.

To all we]: 0/11 it IIHII/ concern Be it known that 1. Cnuuaxcr. A.Form-5n- TON, citizen of the United States. residing at blew York, inthe county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in (einiorced Glass; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same.

This invention relates to reinforced glass showing a variety of designsin place of the woven wire showing a uniform pattern embedded in theglass, now known as wired glass.

An object of this invention is to provide an improved in *ans ofmanufacturing reinforced glass in which a number'of designs andreinforcements may be fastened together to form a continuous web orplate.

A further object of this invention is the provision of improved meansfor tying aseries of designs in a convenient form to form a. continuousweb which is subse' quently provided with plates or sheets of glass toform a continuous web of reinforced glass.

Further obj following specification, appended claims and drawings inwhich:

Figure l is a plan view of a web com prising a plurality of blankssecured to one another preparatory to receiving the glas and Fig. 2 is across sectional view through the web showing tlle relative position ofthe reinforcements iii the finished product.

in the manufzwture of reinforced glass it is necessary that to make theproduct practical, it must be made in sufiicient quantities to justifythe outlay. As it would not warrant the expense to make a few sectionsof reinforced glassof any one particular design, this invention enablesthe duplication of one or as many designs as desired and provides thatthese designs may be fastened to one another to form 'a continuousflexible web. which web may be applied as a single unit by beingembedded in molten glass in any desired manner.

The reinforcing material may be Embedded in the glass in any of theseveral methods now known for the manufacture of reinforced glass. Forinstancewhere glass is made by placing a billet of molten ects will beapparent from the or semi-molten glass upon a bed and passing a roilerover the glass to produce a plate of the desired thickness and feedingthe reinforcing material on to the upper surface of this plate of glassover which, a serrated roller embeds the reinforcement in the sheet ofmolten or semi-molten glass, the reinforcements as described in this ap'plication may be fed to the glass iu the usual manner. Inanother-metluul of manufacturing this glass the molten glass may bepoured upon the bed where it forms a sheet of glass, then thereinforcement may be placed upon this sheet of glass after which, asecond layer of molten glass is placed upon the first layer of glass andreinforcement, to form a sheet of reinforced glass after the glass hashardened. The reinforcement may also be embedded inglass by feeding thereinforcement together with semi-molten glass between rollers, in whichprocess, the reinforcement will be fed centrally between the rollers sothat it may be centrally disposed through the sheet of glass made. inthis manner.

Upon the completion of the manufacture of the reinforced glass, theseveral sections may be removed and used independently of the rest. Inbuilding up the web of reinforcement the sections to be used areassembled in an approved manner to present the most compact form, saidblanks being disposed to have-reinforced material added to the ends ofsome of said sections or between some of said sections to form selvagesor said sections may be fastened directly to one another in variousmanners as will be described.

Referring to the drawings there is shown a web comprising a selvage .10to which are secured the sections 1112 and 13. Other sections H15-16-17-18 and 1.) may be secured to the sections 11'-l2 and 13 as shownin which various forms of fastening means are used.

The section 11 may be secured to the solvag'c 10 which has a s1 rip ofwire mesh soldered or otherwise secured as at 20. The

section 12 has tongues 21 formed on the blank which may be looped inportions of the wire mesh 10 and the sections ll and IQ are shown ashaving tongues 22 from the edges thereof through which rivets 23 arepassed. T he sections 12 and 13 are secured to one another by a strandof wire or similar material 24 being laced through open- 0. A. & H. L.HAYNER.

VULCANIZER.

APPLICATION FILED IAN-1.19M.

' Patented Sept. 5,1916.

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